"directed by Fred Schepisi. It was one of the first western films to be shot on location in the Soviet Union. Principal photography included scenes in and around Moscow and Leningrad (now St Petersburg). The BBC produced a radio play of the novel adapted in seven episodes. It was broadcast in 1994 and starred Tom Baker as Barley Blair. The Russia House The Russia House is a spy novel by John le Carré published in 1989. The title refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet"
"by British saxophonist/film music historian/author Dirk Wickenden, incorporating new comments from Mike Lang. Dirk Wickenden dedicated his liner notes to his saxophonist granddad, George Ernest Tallent (1906 - 1976). ""The Russia House"" currently holds a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews. Hal Hinson in ""The Washington Post"" wrote: ""Making a picture about the political situation in a country as much in flux as the Soviet Union can be disastrous, but the post-glasnost realities here seem plausible and up to the minute. ""The Russia House"" doesn't sweep you off your feet; it works more insidiously than that,"
"The Gray House The Gray House (Russian: «Дом, в котором...», literally: ""The House, In Which..."") is the first novel of Armenian writer Mariam Petrosyan. Written in Russian, it, tells of a boarding school for disabled children and was published in Russian in 2009, becoming a bestseller. The novel was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize in 2010 and received several awards and nominations, among them the 2009 Russian Prize for the best book in Russian by an author living abroad. The worldwide English edition of ""The Gray House"" came out on 25 April 2017, from AmazonCrossing; it made the shortlist"
"The Russian Question The Russian Question (Russian: Русский вопрос, ""Russkiy vopros"") is a Soviet political drama by renowned filmmaker Mikhail Romm. The film is an adaptation of a play of the same name by Soviet poet and journalist Konstantin Simonov. New York, 1946: a leading US newspaper company sends Harry Smith, a talented correspondent, to the Soviet Union. His task is to write a scaremongering report about the Soviet belligerent and expansionist intentions in order to further a widespread campaign of propaganda undertaken by the American media and the conservative elite. Harry, a former war correspondent, accepts the attractive deal"
"for the 2018 Read Russia Prize.. Excerpts from the novel (in English translation by Andrew Bromfield) were narrated by Stephen Fry in the film ""Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin"". The book has been also translated into a number of language including (in chronological order): In addition, selling rights for Danish, Latvian and Norwegian translations were also announced by Petrosyan's literary agency. The Gray House The Gray House (Russian: «Дом, в котором...», literally: ""The House, In Which..."") is the first novel of Armenian writer Mariam Petrosyan. Written in Russian, it, tells of a boarding school for disabled"
"until November 1917. The house is meticulously described in his autobiography ""The Other Shores"" and ""Speak, Memory"". For Vladimir the house remained ""the only house in the world"". Subsequently, even when he grew rich, he never acquired any other house and preferred to live in hotels. A close childhood friend of Olga Nabokov was Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum). As children the two would engage in endless political debates in this house; while Nabokova defended constitutional monarchy, Rand supported republican ideals. The house was broken into by Bolshevik revolutionaries during the October Revolution (1917). Since April 1998 the first floor of"
"29th. The production was directed by David Staller and produced by Gingold Theatrical Group, a New York-Based Theatre Group dedicated to presenting plays that echo Shaw's values. Heartbreak House Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that ""cultured, leisured Europe"" was drifting toward destruction, and that ""Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation"". The ""Russian"
"the 1989 science fiction horror ""Leviathan"", and """" (1989), his second ""Star Trek"" film score. Goldsmith's score to ""Leviathan"" (1989) incorporated the use of recorded whale sounds during the main titles. His critically acclaimed comedy score to ""The 'Burbs"" (1989) is also noteworthy for the use of pipe organ, recorded dog barking sound effects, and for parodying the trumpet ""call to war"" triplets on an echoplex from his previous score to ""Patton"" (1970). In 1990, Jerry Goldsmith received critical acclaim for his score to the romantic drama ""The Russia House"", which featured a unique mixture of Russian music and jazz"
"debate about the Russian-speaking world"". The prize is for a book published in English, but translations from other languages, including of course Russian, are encouraged and actively sought. Pushkin House, London Pushkin House () is the UK's oldest independent Russian cultural centre. Founded in 1954 in a house in Notting Hill by a group of émigré Russian friends, led by Maria Mikhailovna Kullmann (Zernova). Their aim was to create a welcoming meeting-place ""‘for the enjoyment, understanding and promotion of Russian culture in all its forms, and for the exchange of views in a lively, informal atmosphere, with freedom of speech"
"1965, he became a member of the Union of Soviet Writers. By 1978, he had published ten works, but his now best known work, ""Pushkin House"", had to be published in the United States and did not appear in the USSR until two years after the beginning of Perestroika. In 1988, he was one of the founders of the Russian PEN Club and was its President beginning in 1991. He also taught at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. He received an award from ""Oktyabr magazine"" for his story ""Something with love..."" in 2013. This was followed in 2014 by the"
"Heartbreak House Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. According to A. C. Ward, the work argues that ""cultured, leisured Europe"" was drifting toward destruction, and that ""Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation"". The ""Russian manner"" of the subtitle refers to the style of Anton Chekhov, which Shaw adapts. Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione"
"Down House (film) Down House (Russian: Даун Хаус) is a 2001 Russian comedy-gross-out film by Roman Kachanov, a spoof parody on the novel ""The Idiot"" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The film received the Special Jury Prize at Kinotavr. The plot is set in modern Moscow, probably in the second half of the 1990s, with ""New Russians"", Hummer H1 jeeps, bribery, violence, truckfuls of tinned stew as a dowry, and so on. The film is quite far from the novel's subject, but still keeps to the main storyline. It features Fyodor Bondarchuk as Myshkin, and a soundtrack by DJ Groove, one of"
"showing the Soviet Union discussed in the movie for a short combination of shots. The bulk of the film is centered on American culture, society, politics, history, economy and way of life. The Russian Question The Russian Question (Russian: Русский вопрос, ""Russkiy vopros"") is a Soviet political drama by renowned filmmaker Mikhail Romm. The film is an adaptation of a play of the same name by Soviet poet and journalist Konstantin Simonov. New York, 1946: a leading US newspaper company sends Harry Smith, a talented correspondent, to the Soviet Union. His task is to write a scaremongering report about the"
"The Oligarchs The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia is a 2001 non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and ""Washington Post"" contributing editor David E. Hoffman. The book chronicles events of the transitional period in Russia, from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and the subsequent privatization in Russia, to the 1996 presidential election, the 1998 Russian financial crisis, and Vladimir Putin's rise to power in the late 1990s. Hoffman's account focuses on the rise of the Russian oligarchs, a group of businessmen who acquired great wealth and became very influential in Russian"
"USSR Union of Writers (1939). He is famous for his lyric poems many of which became lyrics of the popular songs: ""School Walz"", ""In the Damp Earth-Huts"", ""The Sacred Stone"", ""The Windows of Moscow"", ""Don't Forget"" and ""Moscow Nights"" which was sung at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957 and was played also by American pianist Van Cliburn in the White House in 1979, on the occasion of a visit by the former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. This song made an entry into the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" as the song most frequently sang in the world"
"the house demolished in September 1977. He later wrote in his memoirs, published in 1990, that ""sooner or later we will be ashamed of this piece of barbarism."" However, despite this action, the pilgrims kept coming, often in secret and at night, leaving tokens of remembrance on the vacant site. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union that was complete by 1991, the Church on the Blood was built on the site and is now a major place of pilgrimage. The house features as the setting for two plays: ""Ekaterinburg"" (the title being an alternate romanization of Yekaterinburg); and ""The"
"The House of the Dead (novel) The House of the Dead (, ""Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma"") is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal ""Vremya"" by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The novel has also been published under the titles Memoirs from the House of The Dead, Notes from the Dead House (or Notes from a Dead House), and Notes from the House of the Dead. The book is a loosely-knit collection of facts, events and philosophical discussion organised by ""theme"" rather than as a continuous story. Dostoevsky"
"United States. Among other things, Golitsyn stated: Collaborating opinions can be found in an archive of classified documents collected by Vladimir Bukovsky, a defector also. John le Carré is a writer of fiction, but his ""spy novels"" are known for their keen insights on East-West relations in general and conflicts between Western and Soviet intelligence services in particular. In ""The Russia House"", published on May 22, 1989, there is the telling quote: ""The Soviet Knight is dying inside his armour."" In 1985 German economist Werner Obst published a book entitled ""Der Rote Stern verglüht. Moskaus Abstieg - Deutschlands Chance"" (The"
"series of Freud's work in Russian. He later became known for his Freudian literary criticism of Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol. Otto Schmidt, in the mean time, became vice-president of the coordinating committee of the Moscow Psychoanalytic Society and the state backed, Psychoanalytic Institute which was headed by Ermakov. He was also officially responsible for the Detski Dom (""Children's Home"", a Russian term for orphanage) which opened in May 1921 in the center of Moscow and shared with the Psychoanalytic Institute the magnificent Art Nouveau building in Malaya Nikitskaya Street designed by Fyodor Schechtel (August 7, 1859 - July 7,"
"the resting place of Ezra Pound and Igor Stravinsky. In 1997, a plaque was placed on his house in St Petersburg with his portrait in relief, and the words ""In this house from 1940 to 1972 lived the great Russian poet Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky"". Brodsky's close friend, the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, memorialized him in his collection ""The Prodigal"", in 2004. Brodsky is perhaps most known for his poetry collections ""A Part of Speech"" (1977) and ""To Urania"" (1988) and the essay collection ""Less Than One"" (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other notable works include the"
"book titled ""Secret of the Yellow House"". Aleksin lived in Israel from 1993 until 2012. Then he moved to Luxembourg, where he lived until his death. Anatoly Aleksin Anatoly Georgievich Aleksin (; original surname Goberman, ; 3 August 1924 in Moscow, Russian SFSR – 1 May 2017 in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), was a Russian writer and poet. In the late thirties Aleksin's poems were published in a children's newspaper, ""Pionerskaya Pravda"". In 1950 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies and his first novel ""Thirty one day"" (Тридцать один день) was published. He was a chairman of the"
"Russka (novel) Russka is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, published in 1991 by Crown Publishers. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller. The narrative spans 1,800 years of Russian history. The families that provide the focus for the story are the Bobrovs, Romanovs, Karpenkos, Suvorins and Popovs. The five families span the main ethnic groups and social levels of the society in this northern empire. Historical characters encountered through the narrative include Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible and his secret police, the westernizing Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and the Bolsheviks of the twentieth century. The stories"
"Russkies Russkies is a 1987 American drama film starring Whip Hubley and Leaf Phoenix, directed by Rick Rosenthal with cinematography by Reed Smoot. A few nights before July 4, three 12-year old government/military brats (Danny, Adam, and Jason) are gathered in a Key West bedroom reading their favorite comic book, Sgt. Slammer. A Soviet warship is anchored just off the coast, and despite the violent storm, gung-ho intelligence officer Sulock ignores the captain and drags radioman Mischa Pushkin and his comrade Boris into a raft to row ashore and accept a prototype surveillance device from a U.S. turncoat. The raft"
"Gorky at the Dacha. Leonid Kuchma and Vladimir Putin and their spouses visited the museum in 2003. White Dacha The White Dacha, (; ) is the house that Anton Chekhov had built in Yalta and in which he wrote some of his greatest work. It is now a writer's house museum. The White Dacha was built in 1898 following Chekhov's success with ""The Seagull"". He took up residence there after his father's death and to aid him with coping with tuberculosis. Chekhov planted a variety of trees including mulberry, cherry, almond, peach, cypress, citrus, acacia and birch. He also kept"
"1968 by Michael Guybon; it was later revealed that this was the nom-de-plume of a trio of translators: Glenny, Max Hayward and Manya Harari. His translation of Yuri Trifonov's ""The House on the Embankment"" was well received. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the works of Russian émigré and exiled writers such as Georgy Vladimov, Zinovy Zinik, and Vasily Aksyonov. Glenny co-authored, with Norman Stone, an oral history of the experiences of Russian emigres, titled ""The Other Russia"", for which he also conducted many of the interviews. One of his most monumental works was the translation of Boris"
"flying in under your radar. If it is like any of its characters, it's like Katya. It's reserved, careful to declare itself but full of potent surprises. It's one of the year's best films."" Peter Travers in ""Rolling Stone"" wrote: ""At its best, ""The Russia House"" offers a rare and enthralling spectacle: the resurrection of buried hopes."" ""Time Out"" less enthusiastically wrote: ""Overtaken by East-West events, and with an over-optimistic ending which sets personal against political loyalty, it's still highly enjoyable, wittily written, and beautiful to behold in places, at others somehow too glossy for its own good."" Tom Stoppard's"
"The Man from the USSR and Other Plays The Man from the USSR and Other Plays is a collection of four dramas by the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1984. The plays were collected and translated from the original Russian by Nabokov's son, Dmitri Nabokov after his father's death. The volume consists of the plays 'The Pole' ('Polyus', written 1923), 'The Man from the USSR' ('Chelovek iz SSSR', written 1926), 'The Event' ('Sobytie', written 1938) and 'The Granddad' ('Dedushka'). 'The Pole' is a one-act play in blank verse. It was written in 1923, when Nabokov was working as"
"House for the Rich House for the Rich () is a 2000 Russian drama film directed by Vladimir Fokin. The film is set in the apartment of an old Moscow mansion. In the middle of the 19th century, the squandering nobleman Burkovsky sells the family home, and from that moment the apartment begins its transformation and it gets interwoven with the destinies of the people who have inhabited it: from the Narodnaya Volya members to the Bolshevik commissars, from the terrible communal apartment to the re-creation of the chic apartments by the ""new Russian"" Rumyanov - satirist, poet, actor. Hosts"
"is seen as more postmodern than plagiarist. In the 1950s, at height of the Cold War, Thomas studied Russian during his National Service. He retained a lifelong interest in Russian culture and literature. This culminated in a series of well-received translations of Russian poetry in the 1980s. D. M. Thomas Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935), is a British novelist, poet, playwright and translator. He is best known for his novel ""The White Hotel"" (1981). Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. He attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth Grammar School before graduating with"
"is notable for the high level of engagement she pursues with her subject matter. From the political to the personal, covering topics from perestroika to domestic violence, Schepisi often develops a close working partnership with her subjects as each body of work takes shape. Schepisi's early work comprised small-scale pieces undertaken in her travels to film locations with her director-husband Fred Schepisi. One notable exhibition from these years was ""Glasnost/Perestroika"" (1990) shown in different configurations in London, Los Angeles and Melbourne, which was executed in 1989 during the shooting of The Russia House in Moscow, the first American production granted"
"Russian Far East, his widow, left with five children, had to sell off the house to pay her family's debts. In 1983, renovation works were started on the building to convert it into a hotel. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, various reconstruction works have been largely unsuccessful. As of 2009, the Castle of Richard the Lionheart still stands empty and fenced off in renovation. Mikhail Bulgakov, a famous Kiev-born Russian writer, and his family lived on the street at two different houses in the early-20th century. In Bulgakov's novel ""The White Guard"" the author vividly describes"
"Matryona's Place Matryona's Place (""Матрёнин двор""), sometimes translated as ""Matryona's Home"" (or House), is a novella written in 1959 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. First published by Aleksandr Tvardovsky in the Russian literary journal ""Novy Mir"" in 1963, it is Solzhenitsyn's most read short story. The narrator, a former prisoner of the gulag and a teacher of mathematics, has a longing to return to live in the Russian provinces and takes a job at a school on a collective farm. Matryona offers him a place to live in her tiny, run-down home, but he is told not to expect any ""fancy cooking""."
"(1989). In 1982, Medvedeva moved to Paris and became a piano bar singer. She wrote poetry, essays for French magazines, and published two novels in 1985 and 1987. In 1989 she participated in a collective poetry project, ""The Last 16 December 1989"", together with poets Oleg Prokofiev and Anton Koslov Mayr. This project was published as a book the same year by William Brui. In the early 1990s, Medvedeva introduced herself as a Novy Vzglyad representative in France. In October 1993 Medvedeva initiated an appeal to end the siege of the White House (Russian parliament) organized by Boris Yeltsin. An"